[Denis Shatokhin]
Following the protests against Chinese rule in Tibet, and especially since the violent suppression of dissenters by Chinese security forces, there are an increasing number of calls for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This boycott would supposedly put the Chinese government under immense pressure and force them to improve their human […]
Let the sleeping dragon lie?
Is Tibetan violence justified?
[Patrick Rolfe]
On the 10th of March peaceful protesters took to the streets of Lhasa and other cities. They remained there for five days, some demanding formal autonomy from China as the Dalai Lama himself has done, some demanding outright independence. On the fifth day, the gatherings turned violent. Symbols of the Chinese state – police […]
The unspoken feudalism of the Dalai Lama
[Robert Stagg]
I remember (though not, as the cliché would have it, “vividly”) when I first heard the term “gadfly” used. It was part of Michael Howard’s slightly creaky assault on the United Kingdom Independence Party. They were “cranks” too; “cranks” and “political gadflies”. How dismissive, I thought. I must look these critters up. A shuffle […]